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Suppose I have a mesh containing, among other things, two cubes of different sizes, both oriented so that the main axes of these cubes are parallel to the world axes.

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How can I align these cubes so that the top planes are at the same z coordinate, leaving other coordinates unchanged?

what I want

One way to do it is to separate these cubes into two different objects, and to align these, but the original object contains a lot more than the two cubes, so it needs to be reconstructed after the alignment, which is too much effort.

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    $\begingroup$ could you please make some screenshots to make it more understandable? $\endgroup$
    – moonboots
    Commented Dec 28, 2020 at 11:09
  • $\begingroup$ moonboots is right, indeed. Pictures added. $\endgroup$
    – eezacque
    Commented Dec 28, 2020 at 12:02

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Use Snapping.

Select the vertices you want to move.

Enable snapping (magnet icon) and set it to Snap to Vertices.

In a lateral Orthographic view move the vertices you want to align.

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Other tools to be aware of:

Scaling to zero.

Select all of the vertces and scale to $0$ on the axis you need.

In this example all of the vertices are scaled on the z axis, this is done pressing SZ$0$:

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For a more precise alignment, copy the coordinates of a vertex in a given axis, and make the selected vertices be at such coordinates using the Item > Transform tab.

You can set the coordinates to global.

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To copy and paste values, just move the cursor over to the value you want to copy and press Ctrl+C to copy and Ctrl+V to paste

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  • $\begingroup$ Took me a while to understand the semantics of the various snapping options, but this is exactly what I need! Thanks for sorting me out $\endgroup$
    – eezacque
    Commented Dec 29, 2020 at 15:47
  • $\begingroup$ @eezacque Hey :). If susu's answer solved your issue, please mark it as accepted ✓. $\endgroup$
    – jachym michal
    Commented Dec 29, 2020 at 19:31
  • $\begingroup$ @JachymMichal I like your answer better. $\endgroup$
    – susu
    Commented Dec 29, 2020 at 19:35
  • $\begingroup$ Thanks :) Perhaps I'll get the sweet sweet green checkmark next time :) $\endgroup$
    – jachym michal
    Commented Dec 29, 2020 at 20:59
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You can also use active vertex for snapping

  1. Select the vertices you want to move
  2. Use Pivot > Active Element and enable Vertex snapping
  3. The last selected vertex will be used for snapping

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